An earthquake with an intensity of 4 on the Japanese scale to 7 rattled the Hamadori area of eastern Fukushima Prefecture at 6:31 p.m. Saturday, the Meteorological Agency said. The earthquake measured 3 in the Nakadori district of Fukushima as well as in northern, ...

On the Brink, by Ryusho Kadota, Translated by Simon Varnam.Kurodahan Press, Nonfiction. The personal testimonials from “On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi” are riveting and heartbreaking. Compiled by Ryusho Kadota, each chapter recounts the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake ...

Fukushima Vice Gov. Masao Uchibori said Thursday he will run in next month’s gubernatorial election to fill the shoes of Gov. Yuhei Sato, who has declined to seek a third term. Uchibori, 50, pledged at a news conference to continue the policies of 66-year-old ...

A fire broke out Monday night on a fishing boat about 20 km off the coast of Otsuchi Bay, Iwate Prefecture, and two members of the crew are missing. One of the other 14 rescued members was injured. The Japan Coast Guard is searching ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Fukushima chapter said Saturday it will field Bank of Japan Kobe branch manager Takeshi Hachimura, 55, for a gubernatorial election in the prefecture on Oct. 16. The chapter will meet with Hachimura, who has also worked as head of ...

The Fukushima gubernatorial election will be held Oct. 26, with official campaigning starting Oct. 9, the prefectural election board said Tuesday. It will be the first in Fukushima since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent nuclear disaster. Two-term Gov. Yuhei Sato, 66, ...

“To know the future, look at the past,” is a familiar Buddhist aphorism. However, it’s also said that a prophet isn’t honored in his hometown — which is why I live in Tokyo. As we ride into the Year of the Horse, I thought ...

More than two years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, hundreds of thousands of residents of the Tohoku region of northeastern Honshu remain displaced, the power station teeters on the brink of further disaster and large swaths ...